Subj : posix strftime
To   : tony summerfelt
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Fri Mar 11 2005 05:41 pm

Hey tony!

Mar 11 19:04 05, tony summerfelt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> Sounds promising for ruby then.  What have they got wrt Linux 
 MK>> daemons?

 ts> ruby deamon in 7 easy steps:

 ts>   exit if fork                   # Parent exits, child continues.
 ts>   Process.setsid                 # Become session leader.
 ts>   exit if fork                   # Zap session leader. See [1].
 ts>   Dir.chdir "/"                  # Release old working directory.
 ts>   File.umask 0000                # Ensure sensible umask. Adjust as 
 ts> needed.
 ts>   STDIN.reopen "/dev/null"       # Free file descriptors and
 ts>   STDOUT.reopen "/dev/null", "a" # point them somewhere sensible.
 ts>   STDERR.reopen STDOUT           # STDOUT/ERR should better go to a 
 ts> logfile.


 ts> i believe that's slightly longer than the perl version...

 ts> .t

Oh yeah.  I noticed a couple of networking thingies there but mostly client 
end.  They seem a tad fixated with http and xml.  We'll have to see what we can 
make out of it when we get that far.

Life is good,
Maurice

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